Vision Setting Facilitation Guide: Design thinking Step-by-Step Ebooks, #1

By DesignACE

In this ebook you will learn to leverage the Design Thinking mindset to build a bold strategic vision in just 3-easy workshops. In addition, readers of this book will benefit from learning how to take a human-centred approach to vision setting and strategic planning with your team. 

 

✔️ Activity templates to guide your team through vision building

✔️ Step-by-step guide for vision-building workshops

✔️ Trade secrets to facilitate like a pro

✔️ Talk tracks to captivate audiences

✔️ Agendas to enable productive sessions

✔️ Slideware to easily communicate concepts and objectives 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: DesignACE
• Release date: Sep 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215988268

DesignACE

Andrew is an experienced digital sales leader. He brings energy and expertise that motivates teams to grow their skills, share their learnings, and transform their organizations. Working with dynamic teams to implement human-centred, data-driven strategies is my forte. He believes active listening and user-based research should guide decision-making, and there is "no time but the present" to make meaning of stakeholders and user needs. Christine's passion is triangulating user insights, global trends, and organizational needs to innovate and improve business-to-customer interactions. She has worked extensively with start-up teams and large corporations in finance, telecommunications, and retail to design and implement best-in-class customer strategies that drive memorable experiences.

Book preview

Simple Tips for using this guide

All you need to successfully apply the themes in this guide are the materials noted on this page and a Beginner's Mindset.

🧰 Things you'll need:

Sharpies, markers, or pens 🖊

Sticky notes / scrap paper 🗒

Dot Stickers for voting 🔴🔵

📝 Workshops & Templates:

This guide contains frameworks for workshops, exercises, activities, and facilitation tools throughout each section. Even better, you can find blank, printable templates and links to virtual files at the end of each section.

🎨 Don’t worry, be scrappy:

Never underestimate the magic of post-its and sharpies. A rough-looking template is more likely to be marked up than one that looks polished. Besides, templates and activities drawn by hand often stimulate more meaningful participation from participants.

👀 Icons to look out for:

🔬 Try it

Workshop-style activities explained step-by-step

📖 Reliable resources

Additional content we've found helpful and relevant

💬 Thought starters

Ideas to take away and consider with your team

🎙 Talk track:

A script you can use or remix when facilitating your workshop sessions

🏆 designACE Challenge

Throughout the guide, we will use the designACE challenge to practice fundamental concepts.

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Learning Goals Overview

🔎 Discover [theory & framework]

📋 Prepare [plan & deliver]

🔬 Try [templates & instructions]

eBook #1 Learning Goals:

🔎 Discover:

Learn how co-creating and clearly defining a bold vision can positively impact a team's success.

📋 Prepare:

Discussions to captivate stakeholders' attention, develop empathy, and facilitate productive brain-storming sessions to elevate a team's vision.

🔬 Try:

Workshop activities include a facilitator guide with practitioner tips so leaders can design a bold vision with their team.

A word from the authors

Welcome to an exciting start to your design journey! In this eBook, dive into the content we have carefully curated and start setting bold visions for your products, services, and teams.

We take pride in improving people's lives, big or small. We believe a collaborative approach to vision setting is the foundation for successful projects and forms high-performing teams.

One person should not set the vision without collaboration, feedback, and advocacy. So we've taken special care to select our best tips and tools to help you on your journey - perfect for teams and challenges of all shapes and sizes. A bold vision can substantially impact our work and partnerships - something you may have noticed in your past projects and experiences.

So why is vision setting often rushed or ignored? Because it isn't easy, and it takes some strategic thinking before mobilizing people and resources. Our goal is to help you connect with your users and stakeholders and prioritize concepts so you can turn ideas into reality.

Remember, Design is Messy. Today you take your first steps to make vision setting a priority, so